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Many organizations believe that self-assessments are effective because they allow employees to inform management of their accomplishments and developmental needs. Unfortunately, self-assessments do not meet those expectations. The research on self-assessments[i] shows that they have low validity and high variability.…
Read More Should your employees complete self-assessments? Here’s a better approach.
Forced ranking is one of the most contentious practices used in performance management today. It is based on the premise that rigorous evaluation and ranking of employees by their immediate supervisors on agreed-upon abilities, skills and attitudes is not only…
Read More Forced Ranking: The good, the bad, the ugly, and what to do about it!
Although it has obvious benefits for aligning, motivating and developing an organization’s workforce, performance management is the most hated of human resource processes. Performance management is often bureaucratic and time consuming, with long forms to complete, 360-degree feedback, rankings, forced…
Read More Should you overhaul your performance management system?
Companies today are still struggling to attract and develop more female leaders. Although women make up more than half of the U.S. labor force, according to the U.S. Census of 2010, they are underrepresented in leadership roles at all levels.[i]…
Read More Struggling to attract more women leaders? Try flexible work arrangements
360-degree feedback is a hotly debated topic today. It uses surveys to gather anonymous feedback about managers or employees from peers, subordinates and higher-level executives as input to their performance evaluation. It took off in the 1990s when companies began…
The U.S. labor market is extremely competitive, with the jobless rates in some metropolitan areas well below the national average. Your company won’t get the employees you need by offering the same pay and perks as every other employer or…
Read More Six Strategies for Excelling in a Tight Labor Market!
Fueled by low interest rates, which are expected to rise, and a growing global economy, mergers and acquisitions in 2015 have already topped $1 trillion. If the trend continues, M&A will top $3.7 trillion this year, making it the second-biggest…
Read More Nine Key Strategies for Merger and Acquisition Success!
Performance management is in the news again. This time it is Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall in the April Harvard Business Review, writing about how Deloitte is using its employee performance data to drive higher employee engagement and improve business…
Read More You Hold the Secret to Significant Business Improvement!
Are your employees engaged? Employee engagement is the level of emotional commitment employees have to your organization, its purpose, its culture and goals. Providing jobs with good working conditions, competitive pay, good relationships and security will help you “satisfy” a…
Read More Six steps to increasing employee engagement and enhancing your bottom line
The U.S. economy is in the fifth year of recovery, and Asian economies are rapidly expanding. The United States is experiencing growing labor shortages for programmers, software engineers, CPAs, health care workers and clinical researchers. Finding critical talent in expanding…
